PostGIS

Website	http://postgis.net/
Supported versions	2.1
Current responsible(s)	Yiannis Mouchakis @ NCSR-D -- gmouchakis@iit.demokritos.gr
Docker image(s)	bde2020/postgis
More info	https://github.com/big-data-europe/docker-postgis

Short description

PostGIS is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Example usage

To run the PostGIS container issue

docker run --name postgis -p 5432:5432 bde2020/postgis

To keep data in a host directory run it as

docker run --name postgis -p 5432:5432 -v /path/to/data:/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main bde2020/postgis

Scaling

Only single node support